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Databricks Announces Over 70% Annualised Growth in EMEA Fueled by Enterprise Demand for AI 🚀 🌍 Global Expansion: Introduced DBRX, a high-performing LLM; expanded office footprint in Europe. 🤝 Partnerships & Acquisitions: Collaborated with firms like Accenture; acquired MosaicML, Arcion, others. 🏢 New Headquarters: Opening new EMEA HQ in London; additional offices in Madrid, Milan. 💡 Industry Focus: Launched sector-specific platforms for financial services, energy, and retail. 🛠️ Product Innovation: Enhanced Databricks SQL; strong focus on generative AI adoption. 🚀 Customer Adoption: Major companies like Shell, HSBC using Databricks to drive outcomes. #databricks

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Databricks has raised $10 billion in funding, reaching a $62 billion valuation and solidifying its place among the most valuable private tech companies globally. While much of the attention has focused on AI and tech, the implications for the life sciences industry are profound. At the Databricks World Tour in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to hear from industry leaders about how their technology is transforming life sciences. Here are a few applications I found particularly exciting: Precision Medicine - Databricks’ Unified Data Analytics platform integrates genomic, clinical, and real-world data, driving breakthroughs in personalized medicine and enabling the development of targeted therapies. Clinical Trials - Organizations like Regeneron are leveraging Databricks to streamline patient selection and reduce trial timelines using advanced analytics, accelerating the delivery of life-saving treatments. Data Integrity with Delta Lake - Ensuring regulatory compliance and data integrity is critical for life sciences. Databricks’ Delta Lake provides robust data governance, ACID transactions, and version control, essential for GxP standards and secure regulatory submissions. This has become a vital tool for many companies, including GE HealthCare and Thermo Fisher Scientific. For life sciences leaders, this is a signal of how AI and data analytics are becoming essential tools in staying competitive and advancing human health.

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Recently our Chief Product Officer Wayne Lopez wrote about the Multi-CRM Conundrum. With the M&A market heating up in not only the tech industry but other industries as well, it's good to be equipped with not only key insights but customer successes to a long standing problem with a tried and true solution. Take a look below at a recent customer story. #problemsolved #crmadmin #marketingops #revenueops #salesops

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Struggling to hit your sales target? Have you thought about this ChatGPT sales hack! In our latest episode of the Databricks Diaries, Franco Patano tells Daniel Thornton how juniors at Databricks are using ChatGPT to reach out to prospects meaningfully. Hit the link in the comments to find out more about how you could be leveraging AI. #podcast #databricks #databricksdiaries #databrickspartner #AI #AIAssistant

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'Databricks is growing at a phenomenal pace, and businesses that adopt it are seeing transformative results. But success with Databricks hinges on having the right people in place.' If this sounds like a struggle you are facing, read our latest blog and get in touch today. #databricks #recruitmentpartner #datatalent #dataengineer #hiring

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It's crazy to me how much of an impact our existing library of ML models has on the implementation time our clients see with Prometheus APM. Over the last week I have had 3 different clients tell me about a specific line or asset that they want to try APM on. I have to tell them to zoom out. We are implementing entire 5,000 tag sites in 1 month. Then we are live with their actual data for their entire plant. It's hard for our clients to believe, because they have this pre-conceived idea that models have to be built out for every asset. But we already have that work done. That is the Prometheus APM difference. #APM #reliability #manufacturing #data #IoT #digitaltransformation

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I've been so excited to share the results of this report! We partnered with Forrester to do an objective deep dive with our hundreds of customers to understand the total economic impact of implementing Cortex. Many of these customers migrated from using open source frameworks like Backstage due to low adoption or various other reasons. Happy to say the results are in... and it's more clear than ever that adopting Cortex leads to real tangible ROI across various parts of engineering productivity. Check out the full report below and reach out if you want to supercharge your developer experience :)

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As a startup, agility is often our superpower, allowing us to swiftly adapt to new trends and demands. The ability to continually deliver and adapt ensures that we stay ahead of the curve, just like Databricks has been doing for years. It was great to have Staff Developer Advocate, Holly Smith on the second episode of our Databricks diaries podcast. 👏 If you want to learn more about Databricks competitive edge, you can listen to the full episode, via the link in the comments! #databricksdiaries #databricks #datatalent #datascience #databricksengineers

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😈 Datadog's {APM + Logs} is by far the fastest growing product penetration (by % of ARR) across lots of application and infrastructure companies. This is extremely impressive and a combination of a strong product and robust marketing/distribution certainly makes this possible as they look to sell into #observability and #security teams. Though one thing that's extremely curious... there is a sharp plateau (most significant on chart) spanning the last couple years. Surely that cannot possibly be due to the recent rise of Telemetry Pipelines (like those offered by Edge Delta) and the customers' newfound visibility, control, and flexibility that didn't exist before? 😉 Who knows... 🤷‍♂️

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Brendan Jones, Chief Operating Officer at Konsentus discusses How to Build an Open Data Ecosystem: A Scheme Owner’s Guide: https://lnkd.in/gTPWNZT7 #dataecosystem #data #schemes #APIs

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Big kudos to Devesh Gupta and the Amplitude team for driving real transformation with Workato! 🚀 They’re streamlining key processes like order to cash and headcount planning, delivering real-time insights that are making a massive impact. Check out how they’re navigating complex tech challenges and saving both time and costs. 👏 #CustomerSuccess #EnterpriseOrchestration #DigitalTransformation #Amplitude #Workato

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I spoke with Adrian Bridgwater from Forbes about data products, big data and the obvious need businesses have to extract the full value of their data. And with data streaming businesses can organise data products so that both historical and real-time data can be available for analysis and informed decision-making, and the IT function can move its information stance forward by an order of magnitude. https://lnkd.in/epibC_Mi

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A fantastic application of #leadingedge #datamanagement capabilities. Very proud to see both Qlik and Talend technology key to this solution and making a #positiveimpact on the NSW building industry, protecting residents and home buyers while establishing an amazing framework to recognise quality builders and their work. #dataviz #analytics #datamanagement #dataplatform #datascience

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A CIO looking to “try before he buys.” No- this route is not just for CRO's. I am talking to more and more execs (across many disciplines) that are very reluctant to get into their next long-term role without a baseline understanding as to where the company really is. For many, a try before you buy approach can create a bridge that can take the exec from contract to full-time and provide the visibility they need to feel secure with their next employer. It makes sense from the company’s perspective as well. Company’s can lessen cash outlays associated with headhunter fees, reduce ramp time, “cut the chord” quickly if not a mutual fit, and not get entangled in long-term incentives exchanges until the timing is right. If you are an entrepreneur that is looking to make a strategic hire, but is terrified to make a mistake, try before you buy could be a very interesting option for you. Everyone is selling something- this scenario allows both parties sometime to determine how accurate the selling actually was.

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🏆 The semantic story is indeed a game-changer for businesses aiming to derive the optimal value from their data, and this article truly brings it out! 💡Frances O'Rafferty, Senior Manager at Baringa and a top data management voice in LinkedIn nails it in this article. She discusses the concept of semantics and its ability to help businesses enable their data product journey & transform how they obtain value from their data. By breaking down fundamental aspects like taxonomy, metadata, business glossaries, data models, and access controls, she makes it clear how these work together to build trust and consistency in leveraging data across orgs. Read the full article here to learn more about the semantic story! 🚀 Here's the link: https://lnkd.in/dcVq8Qvq

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Top 5 Reasons to attend the ThoughtSpot Data Renaissance event on 12th June! I'm thrilled to be hosting the event and will be joined by some of the most successful data teams in the industry, some of our most innovative technology partners and some of the most informed thought leaders as we discuss what the Data Renaissance is and why it matters for your business. Here's why attending is a must; 📊 Learn From Customers - Ovo Energy, Brambles and Vita Mojo are all sharing their unique journeys of how they have become more data driven and delivered value from their data. Learn from their challenges and understand what shortcuts can be made 📊 Bernard Marr - world renowned futurist, influencer and thought leader will be discussing how GenAI in practice will revolutionise your business 📊 See the Data Renaissance - ThoughtSpot has a differentiated vision as to how Search and AI can come together to deliver an easy and unique experience for the business user. Learn how our innovations can drive adoption, time to insight and value for your business 📊 Cindi Howson - there are few people in the world that understand the Data & Analytics market as well as Cindi. Her unique perspectives and views on how to be successful with data will inspire, inform and educate. 📊 Engage with Innovators - Google, AWS and Snowflake will all be at the event showing their latest and greatest data platforms and AI. A real chance to engage 1 on 1 to understand their product vision and alignment to your strategy The event is the launch of the Data Renaissance so don't miss out, we'd love to see you there. See the link in the comments for more info and to register.

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The Databricks Digital Natives Podcast explores how Digital Native organisations are reshaping the future by leveraging data and AI. Tune in for insights on how to build your data team, essential skills for engineers and analysts, and industry trends. Episode 1: Hear from Head of Data, David Sykes about how he is building and scaling a high-performing data team at Octopus Energy, and how smart products influence customer behaviour and drive data-informed decisions

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Meet Llama 3.2 on Databricks: faster and now multi-modal. The Llama 3.2 release pushes the frontier of enterprise #GenAI with new smaller models for latency + cost-sensitive use cases and larger multimodal models for visual understanding. Customers can easily get started tuning the Llama 3.2 models securely and efficiently on their data. Available today in Databricks Mosaic AI. 

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